These great blog posts provide good information on methods of implementing cool user interfaces that allow for fluid data entry on either UIView or UITableView based forms with an action button:
- Adding Action Button–This method utilizes a UITableView footer to insert a button that can be used to take action on the data entry form.
- Implementing a Form Inside a UITableView–This uses a method for ensuring that data can be edited, but I am not so fond of the method that prevents the reuse of cells in this implementation. As alternatives, the Apple TaggedLocations Sample provides some good clues. Also, this post, from Twitterific’s creators has some excellent guidance on this as well. Finally, IBAForms is an open source project that abstracts the entire process in a nice way that includes full source code.
- UIScrollView-based Data Entry–This method uses a simple UIScrollView with UITextField items and keyboard size detection and adjustment to allow data entry. This is to be used for very simple forms where a table method does not fit (like where data entry needs more real estate on the screen).
On the iPhone, these seem to be the best methods for this, as there are not very many examples out there…
